Re: [PATCH 4/4] add SGI Altix cross partition memory (XPMEM) driver

2007-08-28 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 02:00:43PM -0500, Robin Holt wrote: > The ioctl is sort of historical. IIRC, in ProPack 3 (RHEL4 based 2.4 > kernel), we added system calls. When the community started making noise > about system calls being bad, we went to a device special file with a > read/write (couldn

Re: [PATCH 4/4] add SGI Altix cross partition memory (XPMEM) driver

2007-08-28 Thread Robin Holt
On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 07:02:35PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Big fat NACK, for dirty VM tricks, playing with task_struct lifetimes, > and last but not least the horrible ioctl "API". The ioctl is sort of historical. IIRC, in ProPack 3 (RHEL4 based 2.4 kernel), we added system calls. When

Re: [PATCH 4/4] add SGI Altix cross partition memory (XPMEM) driver

2007-08-28 Thread Christoph Hellwig
Big fat NACK, for dirty VM tricks, playing with task_struct lifetimes, and last but not least the horrible ioctl "API". - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-in

Re: [PATCH 4/4] add SGI Altix cross partition memory (XPMEM) driver

2007-08-27 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 11:41:12AM -0500, Dean Nelson wrote: > This patch has been bzip2'd and included as an attachment due to size. 200 kB shouldn't be a problem (AFAIR the current limit on linux-kernel is 400 kB). cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly o

[PATCH 4/4] add SGI Altix cross partition memory (XPMEM) driver

2007-08-27 Thread Dean Nelson
This patch has been bzip2'd and included as an attachment due to size. xpmem-module.v002.bz2 Description: application/bzip